Linguistic Areas: Convergence in Historical and Typological Perspective edited by Yaron Matras, April McMahon and Nigel Vincent (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006) ISBN 1403996571. Linguistic Areas ed. Matras, McMahon and Vincent is a collection of 11 papers on areal linguistics, from scholars holding a variety of different views. The first two papers intriguingly suggest doing [...]
As I write this, I’m sitting in the airport in Vienna waiting for a flight back to Helsinki. I’ve still got 28 hours to wait, but the friendly proprietor of the airport restaurant where I sit is from Albania. As it was four in the morning and things weren’t exactly busy for him, we chatted [...]
Through a web search, I stumbled across a monograph by Brian D. Josephs entitled ‘Balkan Insights into the Syntax of *mē in Indo-European’ (PDF) It’s always nice to find freely available monographs about IE linguistics, and this one is very informative for any Classics student wondering why Greek has such an unusual looking negator (in [...]